Caught In The Current

Hebeafter the boats carried by Atlantic stoamers, instead of being made of wood, will be made of steel, in ona piece. A max oí Xorristown, Pa., was unabl to land a sixteen-pcund carp that he caught, and called a friend who shot it on the wing. A i.ktteu was landed in Ann Arbor the Dther day laboled "Look out!'' This letter was writton at tho top of the Eiffel tower. Tirp. '-penny in the slof device has been applied in England to chairs for use in public places, arranged to keep the seat upright until the coin is dropped in, when it can be lowered. Thekk will bo over 5,000 new Indian voters in South Dakota as a result of the recent land allotment acts. Every Indian over twenty-one who receivos an allotment becomes thereby a citizen. TnE Unitod Statos cruiser Thesis, wMch lately returned to Sitka after an extraordinary cruise, is the first steam vessel that ever went to the mouth oí the Mackenzie river, in the Arctio Ccean. Thebe is a horse at Hamburg, N. J., named Eestlesa, now thirty-three years old, of Hambletonian-Clay blood, who was in over thirty battles and skirmishes in the late war, ineluding Petersburg, Fredericksburg, Winchester, the Wilderness and Gettysburg, being wounded at the latter. "Spokane," writes a roeont Tisitor, "willbe rebuilt better than it was. Sandstone will be discarded for granito. A recent discovery is that of a granito quarry nine miles north. There is a wall of white gray granite a mile and a half long and six hundrod foet high. Pieces fifty foet long have beon taken out. This stone will bo used largely in the reconstruction." A compast has laid a main in New York, and will supply the butohers of Washington market with cold air. The supply may be regulated by a cook. The air ia made frigid by the ammonia system. The butchers -vvill use the space fonnerly occupied by ice to put meat in. The company intends to supply restaurants and saloons, and possibly summer resorts in the city, just as soon as it gets its pipes laid. Abe.vutiful white marble bust of Mrs. Cleveland, upon a pedestal of black and white marble, Is at present occupying a córner of ex-Marshal Wilson's drawing-room in Washington. It was left in his charge when Mr. Cleveland went to New York. The bust 13 life size, and is the work of G. Scanki, Genoa, and bears the date 18S6. It was made from impressions taken when, as Miss Folsom, she traveled in Europe. Down in Nashville, Tenn., they devised a shrewd arrangement for enabling voters who could not read to place their cross in the right place on the ballot of the Australian system. They had tin plates made just the size of the ballots, and with slots cut in them at such intervals that the open spaces would come over those names which the voter desired to cross. A young lawyer of Jïashvillo invented the device the night before the election. While the Chinese influx has been checked by the passage of the Restriction act, there has, says the San Francisco Chronicle, during the past few yeans been a steady increase in the number of Japanese" immigrants. Three years ago the Japanese colony in this city numbered 800; to-day the figures may be placed at 2,500. During the last three months 260 Japanese have arrived here, and during the same time only sixty have departed.